Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] now [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having advised restraint by the Labour Party , I was angered , and indeed horrified , by the announcement that the government had asked Lord Denning to conduct his now infamous one-man inquiry into the matter , with terms of reference so loose that he regarded himself as charged to examine everyone 's activities through a microscope and to denounce anyone where there was a whisper of suspected immorality , let alone convincing proof . |
| 2 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 3 | He did , however , lend his now recognisable voice to an animated ABC feature called The Point , shown on 2 February 1971 . |
| 4 | Over the years Gambo became quite famous , and found himself dragged from battle to battle and expected to launch his now famous Halfling hot pot into the enemy ranks . |
| 5 | Some of these points are still raised today , and it is as well to tackle them now prior to the examination of achievement . |
| 6 | The defence minister , Kaspar Villiger , and his supporters reply that Switzerland needs something to replace its now 30-year-old Hawker Hunters . |
| 7 | Then he bundled her now rosy body into her dry shirt and sat her down on the sleeping-bag to vigorously rub her hair dry . |
| 8 | I can see you now — it 's my earliest memory of you , incidentally — I can see you now biting mother . |
| 9 | In this context he formulates his now familiar , if still empirically untested , distinction between ‘ restricted ’ and ‘ extended ’ professionality . |
| 10 | Wearing his now familiar Russian-style hat and white Ulster Protestant Volunteer sash , Mr Paisley was carried shoulder-high through the town hall 's main entrance to ‘ meet his people ’ . |
| 11 | Two months later , Aviv submitted his now notorious report . |
| 12 | As you mature , the fingers of your fists , when idle , may well itch to scribe wondrous designs upon the finger-bones of your dead Brethren , honouring and adorning their now fleshless fists . |
| 13 | Shall I tell you now little lady ? |
| 14 | Dada , small and unapproachable in the breakfast silence , gave his absolute attention to the kedgeree that he was pushing tidily under his great moustache — little did they suspect the surprise in store for them as Nicandra advanced , speechless , down the length of the white-clothed table , solemn in her pinafore , carrying her now quivering treasure . |
| 15 | She made Fred see himself only as she described him as a man who was deliberately making his now pregnant wife unhappy . |
| 16 | The emerging strains in the Centre-Right Bloc in the party were already beginning to show in July 1928 when Bukharin wrote his now celebrated ‘ Notes of An Economist ’ . |
| 17 | He drank his now cold coffee and was grateful for the whisky that Elaine had put in it . |
| 18 | Overjoyed by the decision of the Lord Advocate not to take action against him , and thinking himself now immune , Waddell confessed again , and in much greater detail . |
| 19 | ‘ I have spent the afternoon reading your past features , ’ he informed Maggie icily , watching her now irritated face and ignoring Mitch completely . |
| 20 | ‘ So I answered , ‘ Well , anything they can offer we can offer too and I can offer it now subject to the same conditions . ' ’ |
| 21 | His influence proved to be a great success , but he still strove to introduce his now famous wines to a greater audience . |
| 22 | Lapsing into silence , she sipped her now unwanted coffee and only looked up when he came to sit opposite her , a large plate of bacon and eggs before him . |